Senior Architect (JL=18)

Distributed Storage Senior Staff And/Or Architect

Client is currently looking for motivated individuals in the IT Infrastructure (focus on Storage) domains. The Silicon Valley IT Infrastructure (Storage) R&D Lab located in Santa Clara is looking for Distributed Storage Senior Staff and/or Architect caliber engineers. The experts will join a team in a fast-paced R&D environment where it will be part of a creative research and advanced product investigation team.

Qualification, skills, experiences, and education:

• Must have expertise and experience in some of the following areas:
• BS/MS/Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related field with 6+ years of system design and implementation experience.
• A domain expert, excellent hands-on coding and analytical skills.
• Expertise in distributed storage technologies and knowledge of industry products.
• Expertise in C/C++ and Linux development environment
• Knowledge of SCM, SSD, HDD, RAID/ECC, distributed storage, block, KVS, and object storage and related algorithms
• Knowledge of data plane, control plane, management plane
• Knowledge of Deduplication, compression and compaction, snapshot, replication, thin provisioning, etc. Knowledge of metadata layout and transaction.
• Knowledge of garbage collection, write amplification and over-provisioning
• Knowledge of data indexing, data layout, accessing, updating, logging and recovery.
• Knowledge of thread level parallelism (TLP), instruction level parallelism (ILP), run to completion, poll mode, and user mode architectures
• Familiar with OpenStack platforms and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Familiar with VMware, Xen, HyperV, KVM and other mainstream VMs
• Familiar with the data center disaster recovery, QOS of the distributed storage.
• Strong problem solving ability and communication and data presentation skills

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for architecting and design of Huawei Next Generation Distributed Storage, including distributed block storage, object storage, file storage, IoT, Edge and FOG infrastructure, etc.
• Architect, design and develop POCs and provide highly technical pieces of code - or early reference/ sample code - that can enable an initiative of the future and advance Huawei' competitive advantage.
• Track academic research as well as recent industry advances.
• Perform R&D in SDS, HCI, and hybrid cloud domains.
• Research, analyze, and identify external companies and open source projects competing in and influencing the data management space.
• Consult with and provide guidance to senior management on complex projects and emerging technologies and opportunities.
• Provide direction to teams across multiple product or service areas or within a large and complex product